Deepfake technology has spread widely, producing content that appears indistinguishable from real life and contributing to misinformation. It has also enabled a rise in digital sex crimes, especially deepfake porn made from real people without consent. A US survey of 557 teenagers found that over 36% reported non-consensual pornographic images created using AI, and over 55% reported using AI to personally create deepfake porn. The resulting harms include sexual blackmail, non-consensual sexualization, and child sexual abuse material. US officials have responded more slowly than the European Union and China, but federal prosecutors have charged two men under a new bipartisan law for creating and posting thousands of deepfake images and videos targeting women.
"Deepfakes - digitally altered content that's indistinguishable from real life - have proliferated off the back of the AI boom, turning the web into a noxious slurry of half-truths and misinformation. It's also enabled a major rise in digital sex crimes through deepfake porn of real people. In one recent survey of 557 teenagers in the US, over 36 percent reported that a non-consensual pornographic image had been created of them by someone using AI (alarmingly, over 55 percent reported using AI to personally create deepfake porn.)"
"There's no question that the technology's rapid rise has contributed to a massive rise in sexual blackmail, non-consensual sexualization, and child sexual abuse material. Unlike in the European Union and China, officials in the US have been slow to respond, though two new federal cases may indicate shifting winds."
"According to the Associated Press, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged two men with creating deepfake porn under a new bipartisan law. The men, identified as Cornelius Shannon of New Jersey and Arturo Hernandez of Texas, are alleged to have created and posted thousands of images and videos depicting actresses, singers, political figures, and non-celebrity women in sexual situations."
"Altogether, the DoJ has identified roughly 473 albums containing 140 different victims, all of them women. In particular, the "content published by Hernandez has been viewed nearly a million times," federal prosecutors allege. "This case makes clear that posting deepfake pornography is not a victimless crime," United States Attorney Joseph Nocella said in the presser, "and our office will pursue the criminals who engage"
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